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Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945
Mark Wollaeger
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Description for Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945
Paperback. Integrates archival research with fresh interpretations of British fiction and film to provide a cultural history of the relationship between modernism and propaganda in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century. This book traces the transition from literary to cinematic propaganda. Num Pages: 368 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 542.
Though often defined as having opposite aims, means, and effects, modernism and modern propaganda developed at the same time and influenced each other in surprising ways. The professional propagandist emerged as one kind of information specialist, the modernist writer as another. Britain was particularly important to this double history. By secretly hiring well-known writers and intellectuals to write for the government and by exploiting their control of new global information systems, the British in World War I invented a new template for the manipulation of information that remains with us to this day. Making a persuasive case for the importance ... Read more
Though often defined as having opposite aims, means, and effects, modernism and modern propaganda developed at the same time and influenced each other in surprising ways. The professional propagandist emerged as one kind of information specialist, the modernist writer as another. Britain was particularly important to this double history. By secretly hiring well-known writers and intellectuals to write for the government and by exploiting their control of new global information systems, the British in World War I invented a new template for the manipulation of information that remains with us to this day. Making a persuasive case for the importance ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691138459
SKU
V9780691138459
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About Mark Wollaeger
Mark Wollaeger is professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of "Joseph Conrad and the Fictions of Skepticism", the editor of "James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man": A Casebook", and coeditor of "Joyce and the Subject of History".
Reviews for Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945
"Highly recommended... [This] book is well planned, carefully constructed, and assiduously substantiated."
D. G. Izzo, Choice "Wollaeger gives [the debate about art's relationship to propaganda] new purchase by stressing the emergence of modern propaganda ... and by showing how the last century's propaganda outlets served as both a testing ground and a charger, a model, and a spur, for modernist innovation... ... Read more
D. G. Izzo, Choice "Wollaeger gives [the debate about art's relationship to propaganda] new purchase by stressing the emergence of modern propaganda ... and by showing how the last century's propaganda outlets served as both a testing ground and a charger, a model, and a spur, for modernist innovation... ... Read more